Category: Mexico

December 2014, my husband and I, flew to Mexico for the Christmas break. What a trip it was. So much that I want to share – things to do, things not to do, lessons learnt etc. Continue reading “You gotta love Mexico”→

Take a short break while traveling from one beach to another, to experience the beauty of Goan villages. We stopped our car just before this bridge, and spent some half an hour at the sidewalk here!

Fireworks at sunset at Palolem beach.

After the acquarium, take a chariot ride around the place

Views are never clear though, may be because of smog.

Can you see the shoes – this guy was stuck at the hole for 10 minutes! At this point, you just have to take the leap of faith and let go!

Just entering the cave

Mayank trying to enter the cave! He was pretty comfortable in navigating through the cave.

The entrance to the cave. I wish I could have shown you how small the entrance actually is.

This is how the cave entrance looks like.

Hop on any rock that you find. We took a small diversion and ended up here to enjoy the beauty of Kolar at the foot of these rocks.

My precious!!

The route is pretty clear – but be wary of the thorny bushes

Steps carved on the rocks

The second water cave.

Too brave! There are quite a few points while trekking uphill where your shoes give you the much required grip. I have no clue how she would have managed in her flip flops!

All of us in the cave

At MOMA

Trying to steal a selfie with oldie Brooklyn

Having some fun – just before boarding the Staten Island ferry

With NYC to the right and New Jersey on the left

On the Staten Island ferry

Just outside one of the Broadway Theatres

On the Staten Island Ferry

At the 102nd Floor of the Empire State Building

In front of the Empire State Building

View of the New York City from the Empire State Building

T is for Times Square! Notice the New Years Ball just above my head

Temple

You will be entering through the North Access

Bolivia in the bowl

Cotopaxi backpack – note how you can open it through the length. This allows for better packing efficiency.

The balancing act: Note that the wheel is on the railway track! Only skilled people like me can balance on the wheel, while it rolls on the tracks.

@ the train cementary

Cacti island

Sky Highway

Peeking over Georgia Strait

Sky Highway

Sky Highway – image credits Golfworldresorts.com

The Cove!

Rates at Grouse Mountain

Yep! always wrong

The heroes and their brave jumps

After the brave jump

Drive through Squamish

Little lake in Whistler

He loves ice cream!

@the broomstore

I, my friends, am a “broomstick traveler”. Coined by me, the term is used for people who do no identify themselves with any specific kind of tourism – luxury, solo, budget, long term, short term…! And I found this brooms shop in Granville and could not resist getting photographed

Come paint with us! This is a painting gear shop

This is actually a factory of some kind, but even a factory looks pretty in Granville! the “bois” are just too cute.

@ 30 foot waterfall

Mayank @ Lynn Bridge, Vancouver

Laughing men – Stanley Park

With the nude guy carved on the tree trunk

I think I was too big for the swing.. look how my legs are twisted!

Mayank and I @ Stanley Park

Vancouver in autumn

Emm! No! Please cover up!

Dancing away their worries!

At the entrance of the Botero Museum

LOL, fat Queen Victoria

Fat Mona Lisa

All you need to know about getting to Zipaquira

Main square, Bogota

Head gears, shields, ornaments, crowns, weapons – All that glitters is GOLD at the Gold Museum in Bogota

With fat Mona Lisa

Graffiti in Bogota

Streets of Bogota

Graffiti in Bogota

Graffiti in Bogota

Graffiti in Bogota

Roasted Corn

View from the top

That’s me posing after the climb

Monserrate facts

Monserrate

The story of Jesus’s rebirth told through statues

Church

Cathedral on the top

Souvenir shops on the top

View from the trail

View from the trail

White Christ statue can be seen from the top

Huaca

The last 1 hour hike

The dorm was connected to the reception via a hallway

Spic and span washroom!

ON the wheels of the World’s biggest truck, Sparwood, Western Canada

Visa de Bolivia

@ Taquina strait

A bus being ferried across the strait

Bolivia Peru border

Bolivian embassy in Lima

Sunset at Titicaca

Street graffiti in La Paz

Witches Market in La Paz

Llama and Alpaca

Llama and Alpaca

La Paz

In the teleferico

At the train cementary in Bolivia

Outbound Again’s Backpacker map – Bolivia

Things to do in Peru – backpacker’s map

Things to do in Ecuador: Backpacker’s map

I met this adorable little Boliviana on my ferry ride to La Paz

Lake Titicaca @ sunset

Death road (picture taken from web)

La Paz @ night

Traveling from La Paz to Salar de Uyuni

Our toy car

Just before dusk

Running to save our lives!

@ Salar de Uyuni

Sunset @ the Salar

Good times!

The flooded salar

Partial flooding in May

Perspective

Romantica!

Jumping over water

Sunset at Salar de Uyuni

Badass Lesley, drinking it up in Monseratte, Colombia

Good times with my favorite people

Picking out brains, Bolivia

Paddleboarding

Sunset at Uyuni, Bolivia

Paddle boarding in Montana, USA

Peru-Bolivia border

Dancing in Indian movies

A huge tortoise from the Galapagos (Image courtesy Animal Files)

Gran Columbia before partition

Quito – El Panecillo statue

The church facade

The bird’s eye view of Quito

On the top of the world, almost literally

La Ronda

The real equator line

On the Equator line, Mitad Del a Mundo

St. Basilica’s Cathedral

President’s Palace

Change of Guard ceremony in President’s Palace on Monday

Quito

Mitad del a Mundo, Ecuador

If you are hiking along the rail tracks, this signboard will come as a relief!

@ The Strip, Las Vegas

@Fisherman wharf, SFO

@ Taal Volcano, Phillipines

With the husband @ Universal Studios, LA

Mingling with the minions, Universal Studios. LA

@Edmonton, Canada after a good landing

@ Calgary, right across the street from my train station

@ Coke Museum, Atlanta

Cke Museum, Atlanta

@Johnston Canyon, Canada

Inside a house – notice the fire pit, the guinea pic breeding enclosure and a raised platform (most likely for cooking)

Played a guest again – this time a bigger house!

I visited someone’s house

A reclaimed structure, showing a circular house with conical roof.

One of the houses in the process of reclamation

One my way to Chachapoyas

The city is constructed in 2 levels: the upper level belonging to the bureaucrats and priests and the lower one for the general public

Beautiful designs on Chachapoyan house walls. These designs are unique to Chachapoyas and are not found in any other Peruvian culture